Wall structure.



PATENTED JULY 1905.

A W. EAGER. WALL APPLIOA STRUCTURE.

TION FILED mm. 16, 1903.

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Application filed March 16, 1903. Serialv No. 147,921.

T or, iv/tout 7?] many (an/merm- 7' l Be it known that .l, Anniumn llknsnm lflaonn, a citizen oi" the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles andv State of California, have invented a new and useful l Vall Structure, of which the following is a specification.

An object of this invention is to provide a wall of great tensile and lateral strength and. of conmaratively light weight and to make convenient provision for leading pipes, wires, &c., up through. the wall.

This invention includes a wall. structure as a whole and also the blocks From which the wall is built.

The accmnpanying drawings illustrate the invention.

Figure l: is a 'lragn'iental view of a wall constructed in accordance with this invention. l ig. ll is a plan section. ot a tlragment of the wall at a corner. Fig. Ill: is a vertical section on line III Ill of F H. Fig. IV a section on line IV IV ol. the same view.

This novel wall 1 may be built up of bl oelqs 2, ol. concrete or other material, molded or otherwise formed and hardened before being placed. in the wall. Each of such blocks may comprise two webs 3 and a slab l, lormed integral with said blocks 2 and. projecting beyondv one or both ol' said webs to form one or more lugs 5, which form end almtments for the blocks. The wall n'iay be constructed by laying the blocks together revcrsely, the slabs t forming the opposite sides oi the wall and the webs 3 ol. the blocks on one side ol.

the wall being spaced apart by reason ol. the

engagement of the end lugs 5. The webs of the blocks on the one side of the wall engage the slabs ol' the blocks on the other side ol the wall by abutting against said slabs and in laying the wall. the blocks are placed with. the end webs ol two blocks mid\ ay between. the end webs ol an o| )posite bloclt, and so onv with the blocks ol each side throughout the wall structure. The webs 3 cxtcml trans versely ol the wall and. are 'n'el e'rably equal in length. It evident that for cornerbloclcs the eindv abutment or lug desirably omitted, the slab portion I- and the end web ll being both lengtheninl sulllcicntly to exteiu'l.

1 around the end member ol the meeting wall and. to close the joints, as will be understood from the drawings. The blocks are proportioned so that in turning a corner slab 4: may be inserted into a corner (5, with its end abutment 5 engaging the inside ol the slab of said 1 corner-block, thus leaving at the corner two hollow spaces 7 and is, both of which are desirably lilled with grout El inv cmnpleting the construction of the wall. The spaces 7 and a of the one course will be transposed. with relation. to the spaces 7 and 8 oi the course above and below the same, so that when said. spaces are tilled with grout the corner will be perlectly interlorlwd with artilieial stone 'lormcd .in place around webs ol the corner blocks. When the blocks are placed together, as above described, opposing webs of adjacent blocks ,with abutment portions of the blocks on one side of the wall. and the central portion of the slab on the other side of the wall, will l'm'nl spaces 10, which. may be termed joint spaces, while betwemi said joint spaces interspaces 1']. are provided, l ormed by intermediate portions ol the slabs and the webs alnitting thereagainst. The joint spaces 10 between the adjacent webs and slabs and abutments of adjmaent blocks are desirably .[illed with grout t), thus formin artificial strong bonds between. the |.)locl s lrom top to bottom oi the wall, the interspaccs 11 being lelt open. or unceniented to give a light, cheap, and non-conducting wall. The spaces ll) and. 1 1|. between the slabs and bonds will be continuous :l'rom top to bottom ol? the wall, the webs 3 being in vertical alinemen t, and. the grout in the spaces 1 0 will term stone piers or stndding in places spaced apart at one-halt the lengths o'l the blocks.

It is to be u'mlcrstmnl that I do not limit myself to the exact construction shown or the exact location of the webs, as in a shorter .or lower wall, for instance, l would. place the webs I} close to the ends ol. the lugs or abutments 5, thereby creating less space 10, which requires less concrete,

l deem it desirable to malce the slabs and in some instances to malte the webs nine inches wide and teninches highand the abut n'icn ts or lugs two inches in length, while the slabs, including the end abutments or lugs, form a twenty-four-inch face but these proportions may be varied. \Vith blocks of the proportions stated the concrete piers or studdings 12 will be nine by four inches and the open interspaces 11 would be five by nine inches, while the webs would be one and onehalf by nine by ten inches and the slabs, ineluding the abutments, would be one and one-half by twenty-four by ten inches.

It is possible to so exaggerate the abutments as to diminish the space between the webs on the slab so that the webs of the slab might be only two inches, more or less, apart, and when the wall was completed the spaces between such closely-juxtaposed webs might be filled with concrete, the same being a practical reversal of the form shown, in which the juxtaposed webs belong to different lots but I do not deem such an exaggeration as the desirable form of this invention.

If desired, the proportions may be greatly changed. For instance, the end abutments 5 may project one-fourth or one-half inch, so that the spaces between the webs to be filled with concrete might be one-half inch or more, if desired, and be filled with liquid grout; but all such changes are within the skill of the constructor and may be employed at pleasure without departing from the spirit of this invention.

The upper and lower edges of each block are formed with grooves 18. Thus when the blocks are laid in the wall the grooves may be filled with cement, which when hardened will form a key which looks the blocks from shifting.

By referring to Fig. II it will be seen that when the blocks are placed together in the manner hereinbefore described they natu rallytend to form a straight wall, owing to the positions and equal lengths of cross-webs 5. Hence an inexperienced person may lay a straight wall with but little difficulty.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. A wall formed of blocks, each block comprising a slab with webs projecting therefrom and abutment portions beyond. the

webs to space the blocks, the blocks on the opposite sides of the walls being reversely arranged with their webs extending across to abut against the slabs of opposing blocks and the blocks in adjacent courses breaking joint, with their webs in vertical alinement, forming vertical channels and cement filling in some of said channels forming a studding separated by open vertical channels.

2. A wall formed of courses of blocks, each block, comprising a slab with webs projecting therefrom and end abutment portions beyond the webs, the blocks in each course being reversely arranged on the opposite sides of the wall with their end abutments in contact and their webs extending across to contact with the central portions of opposing slabs to form joint spaces between said central portions, the adjacent webs and the end abutments, and interspaces between the intermediate portions of the slabs and adjacent webs, and cement filling in the joint spaces forming a studding separated by interspaces.

3. A corner construction for two meeting walls, each wall built up of break joint courses of blocks, formed of slabs with webs an d with end abutment portions, the end block of one wall abutting against the inside of the end block of the other wall in each course, and corner-blocks formed of slabs with end webs extending around the end of the end block in the other wall and abutting against the end web' and end abutment thereof to form spaces at each side of said end web, the corner-blocks in adjacent courses being transposed to transpose said spaces, and cement filling in said spaces, forming corner studdin g interlocking with the meeting walls.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, this 11th day of March, 1903.

ABRAHAM WESLEY EAGER.

lVitnesses GEORGE T. HAoKLEY, JULIA TowNsEND. 

